Right generally
Known as the Arkansas Effective Death Penalty Act
The act spans §§ 16–16 (24 sections).
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case State v. Sherman (1990)
Most recently applied in Berry v. City of Fayetteville (October 2003)
Acts 1971, No. 333, § 1; A.S.A. 1947, § 43-2701; Acts 2005, No. 1994, § 276.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) Any person convicted of a misdemeanor or a felony by virtue of a trial in any circuit court of this state has the right of appeal to the Supreme Court.
(2) An appeal may be taken jointly by codefendants or by just one (1) defendant although he or she may have been jointly charged and convicted with another defendant. One (1) appeal may be taken where a defendant has been found guilty of one (1) or more charges contained in any one (1) felony information or indictment.
Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.